Dan Perkins (aka Tom Tomorrow) Takes NPF’s 2024 Berryman Award
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Dan Perkins, who as Tom Tomorrow creates This Modern World for the Daily Kos and other outlets and publications was awarded the 2024 Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons from the National Press Foundation (NPF).
“Tom Tomorrow’s sharp and iconic work embodies the higher purpose of political cartooning: holding powerful figures to account using satire grounded in good journalism.”
Perkins will accept the award at the National Press Foundation Annual Awards Dinner on Thursday, February 20, 2025.
One of those “other publications” is Iowa’s alternative news magazine Little Village, who proudly notes that
For almost 40 years, Perkins has been writing and drawing This Modern World using his pen name Tom Tomorrow. His comics have been gracing the pages of LV since its very first issue in 2001.
And continues profiling the local cartoonist made good:
Dan Perkins spent much of his childhood and adolescence in Iowa City, graduating from West High School. He developed his cartooning sensibilities as part of Iowa City’s vibrant zine scene in the early 1980s.
Perkins created This Modern World in 1988, four years after he moved to San Francisco. It first appeared in Processed World, an underground magazine focused on the absurd and oppressive nature of office life in what was then-known as “the Information Age companies” of the Bay Area. The strip quickly gained a following, and by the early ’90s it was appearing in alt-weekly newspapers around the country, and even a few mainstream publications.
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